this paper is an attempt to shed light on how michael ondaatje has tried to rewrite western history in his booker prize-winning novel the english patient (1992). in the light of colonial and postcolonial theories and hayden white’s theory of narrativity of history, which regards historical accounts as metaphorical statements, the researchers try to show how ondaatje challenges the authenticity ...

This research examines Swami Vivekananda’s speech delivered in the World Parliament of Religions Chicago 1893 AD. It has been evaluated light Mortimer Jerome Alders’s Truth Religion: Plurality Religion and Unity Truth. While evaluating Vivekanand’s advocacy for plurality religions global peace order, researchers concerns on his resistance to religious fanaticism orthodoxy. For study exploitatio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of losartan (LST) in fixed combination with hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) has not been compared to those of amlodipine monotherapy in Asians. This is an important comparison to draw, because Asians have been suggested to respond more favorably to calcium channel blockers and less favorably to angiotensin-converting enzyme inh...

Face recognition is not rooted in a universal eye movement information-gathering strategy. Western observers favor a local facial feature sampling strategy, whereas Eastern observers prefer sampling face information from a global, central fixation strategy. Yet, the precise qualitative (the diagnostic) and quantitative (the amount) information underlying these cultural perceptual biases in face...

WE USED TOIVIAINEN AND KRUMHANSL’S (2003) concurrent probe-tone technique to track Indian and Western musicians’ tonal-hierarchy profiles through modulations in Carnātic (South Indian classical) music. Changes of mode (rāgam) are particularly interesting in Carnātic music because of the large number of modes (more than 300) in its tonal system. We first had musicians generate profiles to establ...

BACKGROUND A low physical activity (PA) level in pregnancy is associated with several adverse health outcomes. Early identification of pregnant women at risk of physical inactivity could inform strategies to promote PA, but no studies so far have presented attempts to develop prognostic models for low PA in pregnancy. Based on moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MVPA) objectively recorded in mid...

Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, tens of thousands foreign fighters from different parts world have joined various armed groups Syria and Iraq. There are three main fighters: Firstly, pro-ISIS who associated with jihadist like Islamic State Iraq (ISIS); secondly, pro-regime Shiite affiliated Assad government; finally, anti-ISIS Western fighters, fighting Kurdish Christian against ISIS ...

Abstract The refugee crisis of 2015 became a major issue both national and pan-European debate. Behavioral reactions among natives in the form support for radical-right parties or leaving neighborhoods following influxes non-Westerners are well documented, but detailed account how asylum seekers contribute to these dynamics remains elusive. In this paper, I study centers refugees choosing their...